Kojun Jean Leyshon

Hokoji / Phoenix Light Temple
Arroyo Seco, NM

Jean Kojun Leyshon began practicing in the late 1970s with Dainin Katagiri Roshi at Minnesota Zen Meditation Center. During the late 1980s she attended monastic practice periods with Katagiri Roshi at Hokyoji in Minnestota, three miles from the Mississipi River, and in 1997 with Reb Anderson at Tassajara. She moved to New Mexico in 1982, and in 1988 began practicing at Hokoji with Kobun Chino Otogawa Roshi . She was ordained by Chino Roshi in 1994 and received dharma transmission in 2003 from Vanja Palmers. She is a regular visiting teacher at Silver City Zen Center in southern New Mexico and has led practice at Jikoji Zen Center and Stone Creek Zendo in Caklifornia, as well as at Hokoji. She lives near Santa Fe, NM and works as a bookkeeper.